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Example sentences for: mired

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Consider the WP 's editorial on Monica's imminent grand jury appearance, which states that her testimony "offers a welcome opportunity to turn this investigation away from the fascinating but tangential privilege questions about Secret Service agents and White House lawyers in which it has so long been mired.
The field was mired in a stale debate over whether Paradise Lost is flawed because it contradicts itself--Satan is an appealing character, even though Milton appears to side with God, etc.
Therefore, like other neglected diseases, chronic infection with hookworm promotes long-term disability and increases the likelihood that an afflicted population will remain mired in poverty.
While Bush remained mired in a "Gentleman's C" groove for the duration of his undergraduate years, Bradley was able to pull himself out of his first-year struggles by dint of hard effort and went on to an honors degree and a Rhodes scholarship.
China policy is mired in incoherence, and the Indian subcontinent is locked in a nuclear arms race.